Why the study?
Do self-reported depressive symptoms associate with increased mortality or dialysis withdrawal in incident hemodialysis patients?
Population
6,415 incident hemodialysis patients admitted at Fresenius Medical Care North America facilities, mean age…
Comparison
Self-reported depressive symptoms vs Lower depression scores
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
up to 1 year
Authors
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May identify high-risk incident hemodialysis patients; extends associations but leaves causality and intervention effects open.
Do self-reported depressive symptoms associate with increased mortality or dialysis withdrawal in incident hemodialysis patients?
Self-reported depressive symptoms in the first 90 days of hemodialysis are independently associated with increased risks of mortality and dialysis withdrawal over the subsequent year.
Lacson et al. (2012) studied this question.
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